The state party leaders reportedly fear losing ownership rights of this data to a large, national operation, while the DNC says bringing the data from outside groups together with state parties would create a more powerful tool looking ahead to 2020.

“If Democrats want any chance of winning in 2020 then we better get on the same page,” said a senior Democratic strategist and former state party official.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Tuesday he would appoint Republican Rep. Martha McSally to serve out the next two years of the late GOP Sen. John McCain’s term, an appointment that comes just over a month after Ms. McSally narrowly lost a race for the state’s other Senate seat to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema.

Ms. McSally will succeed GOP Sen. Jon Kyl, who was appointed to the seat after Mr. McCain’s death, but said he had no intention to remain in the Senate for long.

There’s not much data on the unit, but its role in the company’s 2020 guidance is “material” and it’s notched accelerating double-digit bottom-line growth in the past two years. Frommer notes that investors might be miffed that Schlotman is leaving before 2020, given his role in pushing aggressive guidance, but that he “will, however, likely be responsible for 2019 guidance given with fourth-quarter earnings in early March and we continue to see the potential for upside to low consensus expectations that are embedding just 1%-2% earnings before interest and taxes growth year-over-year.”

The chief of staff for Sen. Kamala Harris is leaving his post to work in an advisory role at her political action committee, a sign that the California Democrat may be preparing to launch a 2020 presidential bid.

KAMALA HARRIS TO KEEP SEAT ON SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, BOOSTING POTENTIAL 2020 BID. Barankin first worked for Harris in 2011 when she was state attorney general as her chief of staff and then as her deputy chief attorney general.

Fox Business Network anchor Stuart Varney warned viewers Monday that the crop of potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are taking "public policy debate far [to the] left." Varney said top Democrats expected to make a run at President Trump all have in common their wish to expand the social welfare state and hand out "free money" or entitlements to "entice" voters.

He said that if such candidates take leading roles in the Democrats' 2020 contests, President Donald Trump and the Republicans will face "23 months of political attacks on the president and 'vote for me, vote for free money' tax enticement." "[They] want to make America more like Europe," he said.

Scientist after scientist told the conference that the decisions made by 2020 will determine whether global heating can be kept to less than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, after which the already apparent dangers of climate instability become far worse.

The mood was more one of relief than triumph on Sunday when the world’s governments eventually found common ground at the UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland.

Lamar Alexander (R., Tenn.) said Monday he would not run for re-election in 2020 and would step down after three terms in the Senate, where he has cut bipartisan deals with Democrats on issues including education and health care.

Mr. Alexander and Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the health and education panel, brokered a rewrite of No Child Left Behind, the contentious 2001 education law.

If early polls are anything to go by, then the failed US Senate candidate from Texas, Beto O’Rourke, must be considered among the contenders.

Speaking to NBC’s Meet the Press, however, the Democrats’ Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer insisted Trump is “not going to get the wall in any form”. Miller, one of the architects of the administration’s hardline immigration policies, told CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday that the president would “absolutely” force a shutdown over the issue.

When Iowa Democrats hold their February 2020 presidential caucuses, millions of Californians will already have their primary ballots.

Following the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary—two predominately-white electorates that are the traditional vetters of presidential candidates—at least six of the next nine states on the 2020 calendar will take Democrats through a swath of states where black and Hispanic Democrats dominate primary elections, including Texas.

Beto O’Rourke, the congressman who fell just shy of defeating the Texas senator Ted Cruz, appears to be the exception and his 2020 prospects are already sending ripples through what promises to be a remarkable and intense contest.

A meeting between O’Rourke and Obama, held last month at the former president’s Washington office, intensified speculation over the prospects of a Beto 2020 campaign. Some activists said the Texan was winning over voters and activists in key battleground states long before he became a serious threat to any likely Democratic opponents.

MACOMB COUNTY, MICH.—Two years ago, the brick bungalows and factory floors here were a crucial part of President Trump’s path to the White House, as they fueled a Michigan victory that was widely cited as a sign of a Republican shift among blue-collar voters.

Mrs. Clinton is unlikely to appear on the Democratic ballot in 2020, meaning Republicans, including Mr. Trump, could face a more challenging landscape in Macomb and places like it in the Great Lakes region.

As he considers running for president, Joe Biden is talking with friends and longtime supporters about whether, at 76, he’s too old to seek the White House, according to several sources who have spoken with the former Democratic vice president.

One option that has been floated, according to a source with knowledge of the talks, is outgoing Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who at 46 has become the subject of intense 2020 speculation after nearly beating GOP Sen. Ted Cruz.